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单词 biscuit throw
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biscuit throw
biscuit throw n. originally Nautical slang (now rare) the distance that a ship's biscuit can be thrown; (later more generally) a short distance (cf. biscuit toss n., stone's throw n.).
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stone-casta1387
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tinec1420
weec1420
field-breadth1535
field-broad1535
pair of butts1545
straw-breadth1577
stone's throw1581
way-bit?1589
space1609
piece1612
littlea1616
spirt1670
a spit and a stride1676
hair's breadth1706
rope's length1777
biscuit throw1796
a whoop and a holler1815
biscuit toss1836
biscuit cast1843
stone-shot1847
pieceway1886
stone-put1896
pitch-and-putt1925
pieceways1932
1796 L. Furlong Amer. Coast Pilot 108 Run for Wigwam-Point which you must keep close aboard (within a biscuit throw).
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. viii. 103 Running the brig within biscuit-throw of the weather schooner.
1986 Spectator 19 July 14/2 In a side street, a biscuit throw away from the extravagantly bad Hotel Turist, there is the house of the Prizren League.
extracted from biscuitn.adj.
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